JCIS Open (Jul 2023)

Zinc porphyrin covalent organic nanodisks synthesized from covalent organic frameworks and their photocatalytic antibacterial activity

  • Xinxi Li,
  • Zheming Su,
  • Mamoru Fujitsuka,
  • Yasuko Osakada

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10
p. 100083

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The development of antibacterial photocatalytic nanomaterials is important. Here, we prepared Zn-porphyrin nanodisks by exfoliation of covalent organic frameworks (COFs). We exfoliated COFs with free-base porphyrins by simple simultaneous coordination of Zn2+ and 4-ethylphyridine. The synthesized Zn-porphyrin nanodisks exhibited higher photocatalytic singlet oxygen production by visible light irradiation, and showed substantial light-irradiated antimicrobial activity against Escherichia coli.

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